Top 8 Wordpress Plugins Used by SEO.com
I know all of you SEO.com fans out there are wondering “what are the most important plugins that I can use on my WordPress blog for SEO”? Well, I’ve decided to unveil our secret stash of the best WordPress plugins for SEO because this is the year of sharing. And also I’d like to see if anyone else can think of any better ones. These are not listed in order of importance, Platinum SEO Pack is the best for overall search engine optimization though, so start there.
Plugin #1: FeedBurner FeedSmith
This probably won’t directly affect your seo on site, but the better reach your blog posts have, the more chance someone has to read it, and link to it if they were inspired by what you say. So you have to write good content first, and then this plugin becomes 100% more effective at building links.
Plugin #2: Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
A must have for every website, XML sitemaps should be generated on the fly and updated whenever you add a new page or write a new post. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.
Plugin #3: Friend Connect Commenting Plugin
You can now allow visitors to log in with their FriendConnect ID, and leave a comment with that same ID. This means that your visitors can log in with their Google, Yahoo!, AIM or OpenID account, by just clicking a button
Plugin #4: Google Analytics
The interfaces are fancy, and the fine grained stats and AdSense integration make it a particularly powerful tool when you’re seeking to push a product online using AdSense.
Plugin #5: Platinum SEO Pack
If you are already using All In One SEO Pack, this plugin will automatically import all the settings, that you have defined using All in one SEO plugin. You just need to verify the options, through Setting->Platinum SEO page of your wordpress blog. Platinum SEO Pack is also compatible with earlier versions of wordpress, though I recommend you to upgrade to the latest version of wordpress.
Plugin #6: Search Excerpt
It extracts out the search keywords, scans the content of matched post entries, and displays document snippets around the keyword, with that specific keyword highlighted. It adds a filter in get_the_excerpt() function so no modification needs to be done to WordPress’ 1.5/2.x theme. For other themes, make sure during “the loop” in search.php, it calls the_excerpt() to display the post entries.
Plugin #7: SRG Clean Archives
This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion that’s search engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.
Plugin Features: It lists the Month / Year, shows total post count for the month (enabled by default), the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article (permalink to article) and the number of comments (enabled by default) that have been made on each article.
Plugin #8: WordPress Database Backup
WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.
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Great Post! Very helpful. Don’t forget about the Blog Link Traffic Analysis Plugin http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/wordpress-blog-link-traffic-analysis-plugin.html
I am a big fan of ‘Search Excerpt’. Saves me a lot of time in fining relevant keywords myself, since there are more than 17 Word Press blogs that I manage on weekly basis.
Hey Adam:
Just a heads up, we also have a new contender for WordPress SEO Plugins called SEO Ultimate. You can check the specs at http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/ not just trying to drop a link here, but the feature/modules are immense and extremely useful for On Page SEO…
All the best!
I have gladly taken your advice and uploaded the Dragon Design Sitemap Generator for my wordpress blogs. This is a fantastic plugin! I have a slight problem though, I also use an xml sitemap generator plugin as well which the dragon design plugin allows a link to be published to the xml file, the problem is the url’s are conflicting with each other: one is /sitemap.xml and the other is /sitemap/ when it is set like this the /sitemap/ one is not viewable so I had to make it /site-map/ to be able to see it. I’ve noticed on seo.com/sitemap/ is perfect and also seo.com/sitemap.xml is also perfect… How did you do this? Is the problem the plugin that I am using? Your xml sitemap appears to be manually created? Is this the case or do you have a plugin for that as well? I don’t want to have to manually edit it on every blog and every post. Also, the xml sitemap generator I am using inserts the plugin author’s links and some formatting that I really don’t want(I have edited the plugin files and slapped with the “no-follow” attribute). Does this formatting hurt seo or “confuse” the search engines? Any help would be greatly appreciated! And by the way you guys are the bible of seo to me!
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Just wondered what the advantages of the Platinum SEO Pack were in your eyes over the All in One SEO pack?
Platinum SEO Pack has more useful options than the all in one seo pack. There are more nofollow selections, additional post, page and home headers, you can nofollow all of the outgoing links on just the front page, you can add the noydir meta tag, the noodp meta tag, you can use the option for noindex on sub pages and my favorite option of all is all of the options that it gives you on each individual post and page of your wordpress blog.
Those are just a few of the things that I can think of off the top of my head. The fact of the matter is that I have used both and have found that I am in greater control of my websites on-page seo than when I was using the All in One SEO Pack.
I hope this helped you make the most educated decision.
I suggest to try new free PHP IDE Codelobster PHP Edition with special WordPress plug-in.
For my SEO Blog, I have totally uninstalled All In One SEO plugin and started using a SEO Theme instead called Thesis. It seems to handle most of my SEO needs better. This is a paid premium theme though.
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